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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both of my Blair kids took magnet classes. Not all magnet classes are open to other Blair kids, however. Also, you can't jump into upper level magnet classes if you haven't taken the prerequisites, which are usually also magnet classes. A word of warning on the magnet classes: often these are AP-level classes but squeezed into a single semester, so your kid has to be willing to really work at it.

[b]Certain CAP classes are also open to non-CAP kids. I think the open CAP classes include theater, but not CAP journalism or US government.[/b] My kids were both in CAP, but I want to emphasize that you don't have to be in CAP to take the open magnet classes. [/quote]

This is very wrong information. Because of the interdisciplinary aspect of the program, CAP theater is directly linked with English, History and Photo. A kid could not be in one class without the others, that's how the program is designed. The CAP kids just did a week-long project that involved hours of in-school library time. A non-CAP kid, with a non-CAP schedule, could not do that.

There are certainly other theater classes in the school. Maybe that's the source of your confusion?

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No, no, no. My kids were in CAP and theater definitely had non-CAP kids. The kids do week-long projects, for sure, but generally these "interdisciplinaries" are coordinated between English and Social Studies (in 9th grade, when CAP kids take Theater) or between English/Journalism/Government in 10th grade. [/quote]

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